12 Test-playing nations and the highest individual score by their wicket-keepers in Tests

#7 Afghanistan - Afzar Zazai 6 (18) vs India, Bengaluru

Not the debut that the Afghan wicket-keeper would have dreamt of

ICC allotted Afghanistan Test status in 2017-18 and the BCCI announced that India would be the first opponents of the minnows. In a two-day Test match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, the Afghan bowlers were shattered by the Indian batsmen as Murali Vijay (105), Shikhar Dhawan (107), Hardik Pandya (71) and KL Rahul (54) led the Indian team to a huge 474 on a green wicket.

When Afghanistan walked in to bat in the first innings, their wicket-keeper Afsar Zazai could score only 6 runs off the 21 balls he faced before Ishant Sharma cleaned him up with a beautiful in-swinger. He came out to bat at no.7 in the second innings but that did no good to him as Ravindra Jadeja uprooted his stumps when the inexperienced Afghan had scored 1 run facing 9 balls.